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RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2024:7977)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 208712

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for firefox.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:7977 advisory.

 Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.

 Security Fix(es):

 * firefox: Use-after-free in Animation timeline (128.3.1 ESR Chemspill) (CVE-2024-9680)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL firefox package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:7977.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317442

http://www.nessus.org/u?e60f8193

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7977

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 208712

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-7977.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2024

Updated: 11/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9680

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 11/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-9680

CWE: 416

RHSA: 2024:7977